The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-24
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

1850
been purchased by General Thomas. the presi-
dent of the East Tennessee railroad. Mr..
Thomas will maintain 1t as a country residence.
John Sugland, on trial for the murder of
Helen A Burt, whose body found in the
Connecticut river on Sunday. yesterday com
mitted suicide by hanging in his cell. at Brattle-
boro, VT
At Yesterdays commencement exercises at
Buchtel College, Mr.. John r. Buchtel, founder
of the college, made additional gift the COL
lege of $175000 His entire gift amounts
to $500, 900.
E. H. Deboeier travelling agent for New
York silver plating house. shot himself dead,
Tuesday. at his boarding place in St Paul,
Mimi, on account of having lost all his money
in gambling =
A. C. Norton and his soc Richard shot and
killed J. L. Hamlin, of Abbeville. s. c., yester-
day morning, at Paror's Station, on the Eutaw-
vile railroad Both were arrested. The cause
of the ARRAY is not stated.
In accordance with the terms of a recent pa
pal bull, the investiture of Rev. Bernard j. Nc
Manus, rector of St. Johns Catholic Church as a
monsignor of the first class occurred yesterday
at Baltimore. Cardinal Gibbons occupied the
throne
Frank Hopper, the alleged forger from Gin
cinnati, who was arrested Wednesday night
at Toronto, Ont, was taken before q police mag
istrate yesterday. Detective Crawford was pres
emit in court, and Hopper expressed his willing
ness to go back with him.
Matthew Gurne, of Haverstraw N Y, who
was bitten by dog with which he was playing.
month ago, and who was seized with symp-
toms of hydrophobia on Monday last, died yes
terday. after night of great agony. He
sixty years old, unmarried and wealthy.
The Montgomery. Ala, street railway yester-
day began operating its cars by the electric
tor system. The company has four lines, aggre-
eating fifteen miles, much of it double-track.
The speed attained is from ten to fifteen miles
an hour. one motor pulling three loaded cars.
VIM. X. Vanderbilt's yacht, the Alva will
start from New York city the morning of
July on cruise around the world, carrying
Mr. Vanderbilt and party of friends The
yacht will steam the Atlantic. MP the
Mediterranean and through the Suez canal,
touching first at Malta.
Belle Gerard, a Philadelphia variety actress,
came to New Brunswick, n. j., on Friday. On
Wednesday night she found unconscious in
an old hack in City alley. When restored she
said she had met three men, who drugged her.
DR.. Shannon says she has suffered brutal out
rage. Her condition is serious.
At Ringgold, Ga, two men named Dennis and
Clark became involved in quarrel over law
suit, and in the fight which resulted, Dennis cut
Clark fatally with knife. Clarks brother then
father of the two injured men came to their res
cue, and he killed with the same knife.
Dennis fed.
Max Marcus. aged Atty years. an advertising
clerk in the New York Daily News Office. blew
his brains out yesterday. There in
the Office at the time but the office boy, who.
hearing the shot, rushed to the scene and found
the body stretched on the aoor. Death resulted
almost Immediately. Marcus a widower
and leaves a grown up son and daughter.
Moses ]. Speight, aged fifteen years, an inmate
of the House of Refuge Randalls island,
New York, on Wednesday last struck his keep
err William Edgar Cole. with a heavy stick, from
the effects of which Cole died at the Harlem
hospital, yesterday morning. The blow
dealt to enable Speighr to gain possession of the
keys and make his escape with other boys COM
prisine a gang leagued together for that pur-
pose.
The members of the National Opera Company
met yesterday at the Academy of Music. New
York. Much dissatisfaction was expressed at
the financial arrangements. f. r Lawrence
many of the directors were away. He prom
sed that the salaries would be paid in full the
earliest possible moment. Manager Locke told
the members that all would be well if they
would have patience until next Thursday.